Shipping-box.



No.832,564. I I PATENTED 0012,1906.

c. 0. WILDBR.

SHIPPING BOX.

APPLIOATIOH FILED FEB. 9. 1905.

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IIVI/EIVTOR ATTORNEY riNrrEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES o;

WILDER, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO LOUIS SIEVERT,OF DAYTON, OHIO.

SHlPPlNG-BOX.

This inventlon relates to improvements in shipping-boxes; and the objectthereof is to provide a box for shipping purposes which will be li ht ofstructure and of great strength and in w 'ch but little material isused.

I accomplish my-object by the construction illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my boxwith the lid thereof partly open; and Fig. 2 is a detail in perspectlve,showin the manner of securing the ends of .the bin ing-straps.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughoutboth views. Referring to the drawings, 1 is a box, of which the bottom2, sides 3, ends 4, and lid 5 are made of thin wood or other suitablematerial. The ends of the box are reinforced by external strips 6, 7, 8,and 9, the latter being attached to the lid 5 at points thereon so as tocome external of the ends 4 when the The tops of the strips 7 and 8 havegains 10 made therein, and tongues-11 extend from the ends of the strips9 and fit in thecorresponding gains 10 when the lid 5 is in properplace.

A series of metallic binding-straps 12 are placed around the box,inclosing the bottom, sides, and lid thereof, and the ends of theSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed I'ebruaryQ. 1906. Serial No. 244,832.

Patented Oct. 2, 1906.

' straps are of sufiicient length as to lap over one another when drawninto place. Each of said ends has a number' of notches 13 made in thesides thereof and are uniforml spaced, so that the notches of one end ofeacli strap will register with those of the other. The ends of saidstraps are secured together by means of plates. 14, each having sidetongues 15, which are ada ted'to fit 1n the registering notches 13 of tlde corres onding stra s and to be clutched over upon t e faces of t eouter ends of the respective straps, as

shown in Fig. 2.

Having described my claim as new, and desire Patent, is

In a device of the class described, a box havin externalreinforcing-strips secured at its en s; a removable lid for the boxhaving stripe at its ends which corres ondres ectively with the stripson the en 5 of the ox, the ends of the strips tongues, and thecorresponding ends of the strips on the box having gains made in theirsides respectively next the adjacent ends of the box, the said tonguesbeing adapted to be removably fitted between the ends of 't e adjacentstrips and the corresponding en s of the box respectively when the lidis secured in place; and binding-straps secured around the box and lid.1 y

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- CHARLES 0. W11 DER.

invention, what I Witnesses ANNA M. WRIGHT. WM. WESTBURG.

to secure by Letters on the lid having- I

